vyhlédnout

Vyhlédnout is a Czech verb meaning “to look out, to glance, to look forward to”. It is formed from the prefix vy‑ (emphasizing completion or correctness) and the root hled‑ (to look), combined with the infinitive suffix ‑nout. The word conveys a sense of looking toward a distant point or anticipating something that will happen in the future. In English, it can be rendered as “to look out”, “to glance at”, “to behold”, or “to foresee” depending on context.

Grammatically vyhlédnout is a perfective, transitive verb that requires an object or a see‑focus complement. Its simple past tense forms are vyhlédl (masculine) and vyhlédla (feminine). The present tense is expressed with the auxiliary *být* plus a past participle: „bude vyhlédnout“ means “will look out.” The verb also appears in a reflexive form vyhlédnout se, meaning “to achieve a view that you can see out from a position”, for example, “je tam vyhlédnout se z této věže nachází nádherný výhled.”

Typical uses of vyhlédnout include literal descriptions of sighting a distant object, such as “vyhlédl na horu” (he looked at the mountain), or metaphorical expectations, as in “vyhlédnout budoucnost” (to foresee the future). The noun form vyhlídka gives a place from which one can watch, corresponding to English “lookout” or “viewpoint”.

Related Czech verbs are vzhlédnout (to look up) and přehlednout (to scan). In linguistic descriptions, vyhlédnout illustrates a common Czech pattern of perfective aspect formation from a root meaning “to look.”